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Hanuman_2000 Posted 22 years ago
Grammar

Past participle

Sir,

I am tired.

I am bored.


Why the past participle of the verb "bore" and "tire" have been used in the above sentences.


Are the word "bored" and "tired" adjective.


Please clear the picture.


Thanks.
  

Top answer

Adjectives, or possibly the past participles used in the passive structure, if you can perceive an agent; in both cases, that is the nature and function of the '-ed' form of the English verb. Somewhere recently we had a thread on this, Hanuman, but I haven't figured out how to search here effectively yet. Perhaps MountainHiker or another more competent moderator could call that thread up for us.

— Mister Micawber

  • Adjectives, or possibly the past participles used in the passive structure, if you can perceive an agent; in both cases, that is the nature and function of the '-ed' form of the English verb.
  • Somewhere recently we had a thread on this, Hanuman, but I haven't figured out how to search here effectively yet.
  • Perhaps MountainHiker or another more competent moderator could call that thread up for us.
  • .
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Adjectives, or possibly the past participles used in the passive structure, if you can perceive an agent; in both cases, that is the nature and function of the '-ed' form of the English verb.

Somewhere recently we had a thread on this, Hanuman, but I haven't figured out how to search here effectively yet. Perhaps MountainHiker or another more competent moderator could call that thread
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My ANSWERS TO SUCH QUERRIES:

THE "B E" FAMILY conjugated as follows:

P r e s e n t P a s t F u t u re Past Participle

Singular Plural Singular Plural

am / is are was were - will be be
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